An Introduction To Text-To-Speech Synthesis
This is the first book to treat two areas of speech synthesis: natural language processing and the inherent problems it presents for speech synthesis; and digital signal processing, with an emphasis on the concatenative approach. The text guides the reader through the material in a step-by-step easy-to-follow way. The book will be of interest to researchers and students in phonetics and speech communication, in both academia and industry.
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An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis is a comprehensive introduction to the subject. The author treats two areas of speech synthesis: Part I of the book concerns natural language processing and the inherent problems it presents for speech synthesis; Part II focuses on digital signal processing, with an emphasis on the concatenative approach. Both parts of the text guide the reader through the material in a step-by-step easy-to-follow way. This is the first book to treat the topic of speech synthesis from the perspective of two different engineering approaches. The book will be of interest to researchers and students in phonetics and speech communication, in both academia and industry.
List of FiguresForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction1Ch. 2Grammars, Inference, Parsing and Transduction37Ch. 3NLP Architectures for TTS Synthesis57Ch. 4Morpho-Syntactic Analysis71Ch. 5Automatic Phonetization105Ch. 6Automatic Prosody Generation129Ch. 7Synthesis Strategies177Ch. 8Linear Prediction Synthesis201Ch. 9Hybrid Harmonic/Stochastic Synthesis229Ch. 10Time-Domain Algorithms251Ch. 11Conclusions and Perspectives271Index281
